Post Office investigator denies behaving like ‘Mafia gangster’ over Horizon scandal
An investigator who helped falsely convict some of those caught up in the Horizon scandal has denied behaving like a “mafia gangster” to try to collect “bounty” through threats and lies.
Post Office investigator Stephen Bradshaw gave evidence to the official inquiry as shocking new details emerged over how subpostmasters were wrongly convicted of swindling money because of Fujitsu’s faulty IT accounting system.
An official inquiry into the fiasco heard on Thursday how victims were told they could only plead guilty if they did not blame Horizon – a flawed system developed by Fujitsu – for any accounting errors, as Mr Bradshaw was forced to deny claims that he bullied branch managers.
